Most of you know about my (not so fun) journey with Hashimoto’s, a challenging autoimmune disease. It’s been a long road with more questions than answers at times. I’m so fortunate to meet people like Dr. Tom O’Bryan along the way to help me understand this silent driver of so many modern diseases.

Not sure if autoimmune disease affects you? If you live a generally healthy lifestyle and still have a host of symptoms, don’t miss this episode!

Dr. Tom O’Bryan on Autoimmune Disease Symptoms, Signs, and Causes

Dr. Tom is world-renowned expert on why autoimmune disease happens and what it really is. He serves on the faculty of the Institute of Functional Medicine and brought about the first Gluten Summit, gathering 29 experts from around the world to explore the real connection between gluten sensitivity and autoimmune disease.

What’s more, I love his passion for reaching the next generation with this all-important message about the root cause of so many modern diseases. Take a listen and I think you’ll agree this is best explanation you’ve ever heard about this crucial (and sometimes confusing) topic.

In This Episode You’ll Learn

the hidden reason even why people who take care of their health get diseases

Do you or have you ever had symptoms of an autoimmune disease? What questions would you ask Dr. Tom given the chance? I’ll save your questions for Round 2!

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Reader Comments

Dr. O’Bryan does an incredible job of explaining the information that he shares, in a way that is understandable. Thank you Katie for having Dr. O’Bryan on your podcast, and for all that you do to educate your listeners so that we can learn how to be healthier ourselves, and how to help our families to be healthier. I have learned so much since discovering this podcast!

I loved it! Dr. O’Bryan has been my favorite ever since I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. Someone told me about him and I have been a fan ever since. He is a wealth of of great information. His Gluten Free Summit has been an absolute life saver for me. Thank you so much for doing this interview with him.

I’m obviously technology challenged because I can’t figure out how to get to the podcast show notes. I love all your podcasts and even after listening to a podcast where you explained how to do it, I’m still confused. I’m sorry, but could you tell me where to find the notes? You have such good info, thanks for all you do!

Hi Katy, I would like Dr Tom to give some more information on the validity of using IgG to indicate food sensitivities and intolerances, I’m assuming this is the test he uses. I haven’t found any reputable source of peer reviewed articles that says this is a valid method. In fact one paper says that children with allergies to food who also had IgG antibodies to those foods were more likely to grow out of the allergy after age five than those who didn’t have the IgG antibodies. So they were suggesting that the IgG antibodies were having a possible moderating effect on the IgE antibodies involved in the allergic reaction. I would love more information on the research he was referring to in your conversation! Thanks Katy! I did love this episode, it had a lot of great information!

Brilliant podcast – and love having the transcript – really interesting to understand how cutting out wheat imbalances your gut health so dramatically… and how you can improve that, really quite easily, cheaply and naturally. It makes so much sense, off to try out the advice now! Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂